This is from "vgcfgbackup -P -f file.txt" fileserver:~# cat file.txt |grep "id =" VG (4474) id = "lIoGSW-jLzj-HDN6-1mdY-0yqV-bily-BU9xzF" pv0 (hda2) id = "hxeJjE-AgPR-letG-U0rH-FlDP-hOu9-o7UH7e" pv1 (hdc) id = "KMzdEO-aigL-KoHL-2ZED-SgWf-CsoW-7qEWQP" pv2 (hdb) id = "2MKTrn-jv8Y-hUPU-8W6m-Uur1-ItpE-Abq3w4" pv3 (hdd) id = "ISBKAD-7SQt-B9Bo-ppng-G5Q6-Iu3D-uABjz7" LV (storage) id = "SoVzKi-y750-swPF-xT8D-0ijX-GNAi-3FddlG" and fileserver:~# vgdisplay -v |grep "UUID" VG UUID lIoGSW-jLzj-HDN6-1mdY-0yqV-bily-BU9xzF LV UUID SoVzKi-y750-swPF-xT8D-0ijX-GNAi-3FddlG PV UUID hxeJjE-AgPR-letG-U0rH-FlDP-hOu9-o7UH7e <-- hda2 PV UUID KMzdEO-aigL-KoHL-2ZED-SgWf-CsoW-7qEWQP <-- hdc PV UUID 2MKTrn-jv8Y-hUPU-8W6m-Uur1-ItpE-Abq3w4 <-- hdb PV UUID ISBKAD-7SQt-B9Bo-ppng-G5Q6-Iu3D-uABjz7 <-- hdd vgchange -a y 4474 -vvvv can be see at http://ultimate.kicks-ass.net/files/lvm2.txt I dont see any differences there. Any other advice? Terry Rigby _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/